Unit 3 The Million Pound Bank-Note（Vocabulary and Useful Expressions）
3. i wonder, mr. adams, if you mind us asking a few questions.
(1). wonder vt. 想知道
spoken used to ask politely for something
i wonder if/whether
e.g. i wonder if i might have a glass of water?
to think about something that you are not sure about and try to guess what is true, what will happen etc :
wonder who/what/how etc
e.g. i wonder how james is getting on.
i wonder who is going to give a lecture?
(2). mind vt. feel discomfort at sth; object to sth. 介意
do you mind my/me sitting here?
e.g. i don’t mind _____ the decision as long as it is not to late. (XX高考）
a. you to delay making b. your delaying making
c. your delaying to make d. you delay to make
注意：-----do you mind my smoking here?
-----yes, you’d better not./ no, just go ahead.
4. i find myself carried out to sea by a strong wind.
find oneself doing sth（發現自己不知不覺…)
to gradually realize that you are doing something, although you had not intended or planned to do it
e.g. he found himself walking towards the park.
find oneself in/at etc (發現自己竟……）
a) to realize that you are in a particular situation, especially a bad one, that you did not expect
e.g. they suddenly found themselves without a goalkeeper.
b) to realize that you have arrived somewhere without intending to
e.g. after wandering around, we found ourselves back at the hotel.
find＋賓語＋賓語補足語，其中的賓補可以是名詞、形容詞、分詞、副詞、介詞短語或者to be型不定式
e.g. (1) you will find a difficult book. (名詞）
(2) i find maths to be difficult.（to be型）
(3) she found the door closed. (過去分詞）
(4) we found him interesting.（現在分詞）
(5) i find the article easy to understand.（形容詞）
(6) when i arrived, i find him in bed.（介詞短語）
(7) i found her out.（副詞）
5. …, which account for my appearance.
• account for sth 說明/解釋…的原因
a) to be the reason why something happens
e.g. his illness accounts for his absence.
b) to give a satisfactory explanation of why something has happened or why you did something
e.g. how do you account for the sudden disappearance of the murder weapon.